Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as part of a property swap agreement announced previously with PriCellular Corp. The RSA includes six counties with a population of...
ATLANTA-LHS Communications Systems Inc. announced it has licensed its Business Support and Control System to Powertel Inc. of West Point, Ga.The agreement follows recent licensing agreements with American Portable Telecom Inc. for personal communication services in major trading areas covering 27.3 million people, and...
ANI Site Development announced its new web site available to antenna site location professionals. Users can get a visual representation of ANI's sites by clicking on any part of the Southeastern United States. Users also can access licensing information, maps and site pictures by...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services, a subsidiary of USCS International, has reached technology agreement with AT&T Corp. under which IBS will provide software technology that will aid AT&T in controlling the production of billing statements sent to its consumer and small business customers...
NEW YORK-A recent concerted industrywide effort among cellular carriers has reduced churn to an estimated 2 percent to 2.5 percent per month on average. But the battle is far from over, as personal communications services and number portability could cause cellular churn to increase.Approaching...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco, a partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced it is adding its own cellular long-distance service.Cellular One said customers now can receive all of their cellular charges, local air time and long distance on...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Information Services Inc. has named Jeffrey Fox president and William Cravens chairman.Fox most recently served as senior vice president of business development and Cravens previously served as vice chairman and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Alltel, Fox worked in investment...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Computer Sciences Corp. announced it has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar contract to provide billing and customer care services to personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc.Under the terms of the agreement, CSC will support OCI with version 3.0 of its Tris+...
FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems, a business and information technology consulting firm, announced an $8.5 million agreement to develop a comprehensive customer care and billing platform to support Canadian-based Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s new personal communications services offering.Under the terms of the agreement, AMS will provide...
NEW YORK-In what is believed to be the first and only such endeavor to date, Working Assets this summer introduced an affinity program in which it donates a percentage of paging charges to nonprofit groups.Working Assets, San Francisco, has become a customer and reseller...
WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, "initiates a comprehensive review of our existing regulatory framework of structural and nonstructural safeguards for local exchange carrier provision of commercial mobile radio services."Taking...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc., a provider of management solutions for the wireless industry, has completed the installation of the first Unix version of SCI's Intelligent Message Router for Western Wireless Corp.The system also incorporates an FTAM interface, the standard transfer protocol used throughout Europe...
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. announced it is offering local cellular service in the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., markets. Customers in those areas will have an alternative for local cellular service, since the company is reselling airtime, as well as a variety of integrated services...
Although LHS Communications Systems Inc. was formed only a year ago, the company is not new.The U.S. operation, which provides billing and customer care systems to wireless carriers, is an offspring of LH Specifications, started in Germany six years ago by former IBM executives...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. That was before Congress added the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the picture.Underlying all...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks.Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data service to more than 65 million potential customers in 34 cellular markets, AT&T said. Account...
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. said it is introducing local cellular service in south Florida including Miami. The announcement comes on the heels of MCI's recent cellular service introductions in Atlanta, Detroit and greater Michigan.MCI said business and residential customers in these markets now have a...
Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these "value-adds" provide carriers is uncertain.Depending on the sophistication and expandability of the platform, enhanced services can be expensive for carriers to implement in their networks. But customers who...
Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the United States.CWI said it initially will offer its Business First Cellular service this fall...
TAMPA, Fla.-Personal communications services provider American Portable Telecom Inc. announced it has selected Tampa, Fla., as the site of its new National Operations Center.The center, which is scheduled to begin operating this fall, will support the company's nationwide PCS network and employ more than...
From Wall Street to Main Street, the outlook for the cellular industry remains positive, especially for major players abroad and minor players at home that exploit markets with lower competition and penetration levels.The new Telecommunications Act has unleashed forces that could transform the entire...
CINCINNATI, Ohio-Cincinnati Bell Information Systems has signed a three-year contract renewal with Motorola Cellular Service Inc. for cellular customer care and billing.The contract includes the continued use of CBIS' advanced customer care and billing solutions in a service bureau environment. CBIS said it provides...
